The document discusses how mobile learning apps can harness collective intelligence. It argues that the way we learn in terms of what, how, when and why will fundamentally change in the near future. Specifically, it envisions breaking down walls between the classroom, school, subjects, teachers and learners, as well as between school and the real world. It describes a project in Africa called Cyber Kids that introduced computers to children's education and aims to maximize the benefits of child-centered learning paradigms. The document advocates designing the education of tomorrow by harnessing collective intelligence and wisdom through dialogic design principles.

1. Harnessing Collective Intelligence from
within Mobile Learning Apps
A path towards designing better Futures
Yiannis
Laouris
Future
Worlds
Center
NETS
University
2014
eLearning
Innovations
Conference

2. Schools! A thing of the past?
as
we
know
them
NO
as we know them

3. The “what”, “how”,
“when” and “why” we
learn are going to
fundamentally change
In the near future….

4. We can design our future!

8. 2050
Digital Task Force

11. Break down the walls

12. ◉ Classroom walls
◉ School perimeter
◉ Geographic walls
◉ Subject-domain walls
◉ Walls between teacher-learner
◉ Walls between school and real
world
◉ Time-space walls

13. How we grew up in the 20th
century

14. How kids grow up in the 21st century

15. How its becoming

16. How it should be

17. Its not about making it happen
Its about letting it happen

18. A dream for Africa
“… re-define the tools, methods and purpose of education,
in light of relevant socio-, techno-, economic changes”
The “what”, “how”, “when” and “why” we learn
are going to fundamentally change

19. “the dream”
1991
!
➢ We envisioned that introducing advanced computer
technology in the lives of a critical number of young
children using an educationally responsible, socially
relevant and peace-enhancing curriculum would allow us
to “transcend” the country’s educational and political life
and move the new generation a decade ahead.

20. “… to re-define the tools, methods and purpose of
education, in light of relevant social change”
The vision statement
Ever-changing
technologies
CYBER KIDS
Method
Back to philosophy
Learning=food, pleasure

21. 1 2 3 4 5
Centers
Entrepreneurs
Instructors
Students (x10)
0
100
200
300
400
Expansion of Cyber Kids
Centers
Entrepreneurs
Instructors
Students (x10)
15% of the population!!

22. 22
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me
for
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and
copies
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27. Egypt

28. Jordan

29. Bulgaria

30. India

31. It is not about arguing for the superiority of
child-centered educational paradigms, but how to
design the best possible environments and
methodologies to maximize the benefits of its
implementation.

32. Laouris,
(2014).
Teams
Construct
Knowledge
During
Project-­‐Driven
Social
Interactions:
A
Facet
of
the
CYBER
Kids
Method.
In:
Feller,
Sebastian
and
Ilker
Yengin
(eds.),
Educating
in
Dialog.
Constructing
meaning
and
building
knowledge
with
dialogic
technology,
John
Benjamins
Publishing
Company,
111-­‐131.

33. ➢ Curriculum declared “public domain”
➢ Contact me for collaborations
➢ Replicate the experiment at larger scale
➢ Go Mobile
➢ Develop a local, bottom-up vision
A dream for Africa
A dream is powerful when it is shared

34. Envisioning and Designing
the Education of Tomorrow

35. The Science of Dialogic Design
From the Athenian Agora
to the Club of Rome
to the Information Age
Harnessing Collective Intelligence and
Collective wisdom

36. “The
science
of
dialogue
is
truly
a
science
that
enables
people
from
all
walks
of
life
to
become
‘systems
thinkers.’
This
is
the
sole
rationale
for
its
invention
and
evolution.”
-­‐Aleco
Christakis

37. IDEAS have properties
■ They are Responses to a Triggering Question
■ Have a Father/mother
■ Coded with a Number
■ Have CONTENT
■ Belong to CATEGORIES
■ Have short clarification
■ No idea should be LOST (Documentation)
■ Ideas GROW (when discussed)
■ Search for similarities
■ Search for influence of one idea on another

38. 38
Idea Prism

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